New chrome-free tanning agent from Chemtan offers improved shrink temperature
03/03/2016
It said on bringing the product to market that M-5 can typically achieve a shrink temperature of 75 degrees Celsius.
It’s non-yellowing, making the product especially suited to making leather for white athletic shoes and for automotive, but it also imparts “numerous reactive sites”, Chemtan said, to make bright and dark shades possible.
It is a designed to replace aldehyde and aluminium tans.